This week as part of food and the environment in our Eco-Schools, The Investigators have been very busy planting their cucumber, cauliflower, cabbage and sweetcorn outside, this helps promote the children’s understanding of where food comes from and how it grows. We have been very excited watching the vegetables spout indoors, we are now […]
This week has been extremely busy with our sponsored fancy dress walks in aid of our chosen charity ‘Friends of the Sick Kids’, we would like to thank all the children, parents/carers for the sponsor money (we will keep you updated with the total once all the money has been received and will add the […]
Yesterday some of the Investigators went on a little trip to Edinburgh Zoo for their School Leavers Trip! We set off in the morning and spent the day walking around the zoo, searching for all the animals. We stopped for a picnic of sausage/cheese rolls, sandwiches, quavers, orange and juice. Followed by a play at […]
This afternoon The Investigators were set the task of planting our indoor vegetables, this entailed a lot of discussion about the difference in the variety of seeds and how we need to water them regularly. We are hoping that they come on as much as our outdoor vegetables that we planting last month. We hope to have […]
We would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents who donated us their Active Kids Vouchers from Sainsbury’s! we got a total of 750 vouchers. The children have enjoyed going through the 2016 Sainsbury’s catalogue discussing what new equipment they would like. After lots of discussions and careful consideration we have […]
We would like to thank the children, parents and staff for their suggestions and votes for the change in room names at Rocking Horse. The votes have been counted and we are now ‘The Explorers’ (previously Beanies), ‘The Searchers’ (previously Toddlers) and ‘The Investigators’ (previously Preschool).
Today the sun was maybe hiding but the Beanies still enjoyed exploring on their trip to the Botanical Gardens. The children explored the grounds of the gardens and were able to see many varieties of plants and trees in their full blossom, the blossoms were also great to hide underneath.
Today was a HUGE success, we would like to thank all children, parents and staff for their lovely cakes, biscuits and scones. The grand total raised for The Sick Kids Friend Foundation is £94.00. This is only the start of our fundraising, we have a week of sponsored fancy dress walks in July to look […]
Today is our annual bake sale in aid of The Sick Kids Friends Foundation, already this morning we have lots of treats for sale and more to follow throughout the day. Please pop in for a lovely treat on this rainy Friday.
On Friday the 6th of May, the preschool children at Rocking Horse took part in a ‘Clean up Scotland’ at Rosefield Park. The children were very excited to be putting on their tabards and collecting their litter pickers to go and clean our community. Clean up Scotland work with Greggs the Bakers so during the […]